** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Rights group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) have launched a new report The Great Debunk: Challenging Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, which examines how false narratives about Muslims once limited to the far-right fringes have entered mainstream political,...
The Bolton News reports on the sentencing of a woman who verbally abused and assaulted a Muslim man and caused damage to the front door of a property last December. Susan Draper, 47, pleaded guilty to a charge of racially aggravated assault on Mohammed Masood on 21 December 2015. She also pleaded...
The Grimsby Telegraph reports on the sentencing of a man who threatened to burn down a Muslim owned pizza shop with petrol-filled drink cans on a drunken night out. Aaron Bell, 23, was in a heavily drunk state when he threatened to “burn down” the pizza shop after allegedly being attacked by...
As constabularies in England and Wales prepare to mark Hate Crime Awareness Week (February 8 – 14), the Manchester Evening News reports on hate crime statistics for the Greater Manchester region to the year ending September 2015. The figures show that the number of race and religious hate crimes...
Scottish Television station STV News reports that a Dundee Councillor under investigation by the SNP for allegedly sending Islamophobic text messages to a female Muslim colleague following the Paris terror attacks in November has quit his job. Craig Melville had already been suspended as an...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the trial in abstentia of a man charged with racially aggravated assault on Muslim taxi driver, Mohamed Mirza, in Burnley. Pennine Magistrates court heard that Mr Mirza had turned up at an address in the town to pick up a fare when he was confronted by Daniel...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused a Muslim police officer after becoming embroiled in a skirmish at Blackburn railway station while drunk. Luke Mulgrew, 29, had drunk a “gigantic” amount of alcohol when officers received reports of two men fighting...
The Manchester Evening News reports on a hate crime investigation launched by Greater Manchester Police after a Muslim family in Salford were terrorised by a gang of men armed with a gun, a meat cleaver and a knife who broke into their home and shouted, “We are going to kill you. Isis scum.”...
A poll commissioned by the BBC and conducted by ComRes reveals that British attitudes towards refugees from Syria and Libya have toughened since last year. The BBC local radio poll of 2,204 participants interviewed in England, Scotland and Wales between 22-24 January 2016, revealed that over 2 in 5...
Following the recommendation of the terrorism watchdog that the Government initiate an independent inquiry into the Prevent strategy, the Joint Committee on Human Rights yesterday announced the launch of an inquiry into counter-extremism strategy and its human rights compliance as part of the...
The Guardian reports that the UK’s terror watchdog has called for an independent review of the government’s Prevent strategy citing concerns that it is spreading mistrust and fear within British Muslim communities. David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said the...
